The Republican journal., 1887-01-06
Generalities.

The care Of the statue of liberty Is to be turn
ed over to the war department..
A gang of Italians have been arrested In Bos-
ton for counterfeitng silver money.
The increase of manufactures at the South
the past year has never been equaled.
Mr.. ingalls, of Kansas is said to be the best
dressed man in the United States Senate.
Harvard College receives a legacy of $780,
600 by the will of the late J. G. A. Williams.
The threatened strike of twelve thousand
Pennsy l,a nia coke workers has been averted.
san Francisco strikers attempted the use of
dynamite but the plot was discovered in time.
lee has closed navigation on the Hudson.
Many grain and lumber boats are frozen in.
The Washington monument is ready to be
turned over to the keeping of the secretary of
war.
A railroad accident near Winnipeg resulted
in the killing of two men and slight injuries to
% others.
A big fire in Liverpool Friday destroyed two
million, of property. 1t was the most destruc-
tive fire since 1917.
Dxcv. the mordtn "AdoniS." took three de-
grees in Templar Masonry at Boston under a
special dispensation.
The lumber mill of Warner, Purves Il Sper-
can. near st. John, n. b., was destroyed by fire
Thursday total loss, $50 900
The secretary Of the treasury has issued a
call for $4,000, 900 of three per cents. The call
will mature February list, 1887.
Warner, the patent medicine manufacturer
of Rochester, \. y, has given his employees
S33o, 900 as a Christmas present.
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a Iadlock memorial building in Sioux City,
| Ia. costing not less than 100000.
Negro cmigrants from South Carolina are
iocking into Arkansas and taking up home
>tca,!> of 100 acres for each family
Secretary Manning is very feeble and has to
use crutche>. He is pronounced to be Il phys
lea! wreck and wholly unfit for duty.
The loss of life OH the Panama Canal, and the
i'll treatment of the workmen employed is said
to be worse now than it ever has been.
The Supreme Court of Alabama has just rem
dored an important decision involving the title
to several million dollars worth of lands.
The trial of Andover professors reopcned on
Tuesday. Prof. Egbert Smyth's being the first
ease taken up. The trial is open to the public.
The farmers in the Cape Colony intend to
send Queen Victoria robe, doIman and fan
com posed Of ostrich feathers as Jubilee pres
ent.
The circular of c. l.. Greene 4 Co. Of New
York estimates the American cotton crop for
the year l>SG-S1 at somewhat less than of last
year.
Captain Six Killer Chief of Police of the In
dian Territory. was murdered December oath
by desperadue>. one of whom was recently par
doned from the penitentiary by President Cleve-
land
A Young man and woman who We're to have
been married soon Were Killed Christmas night
while walking on the railway track near South
Norwak. Conn.
The whole family of Joseph Sci|lot, a car
painter of Cincinnati, consisting of himself,
wife and son. We're poisoned to death by eating
canned green peas.
II. ii. Warmers employees have until July to
decide whether they will take his Christmas
gift of S250,0o0 in money or accept such por-
The entire gang engaged in robbing the eX-
press ear of the ST. Louis and san Francisco
train Oh October - are in custody and some of
the money reeo, cred
The strike of coal handlers at Port Richmond
Pa, has temporarily paral yzed business. II the
strike continues it will throw about $4,000 min
cr> on! of employment.
Judge Sloan, of Milwaukee, SAYS that the de-
fence of the Bay View rioters can only put six
witnesses on the stand who will swear there
WAS no riot on May or ) last.
Master Workman Pow.lerly has issued an
important circular to Knights of Labor in Chi
| cigo, n>tructng them to abstain from collect
Ing money to aid the Anarchists.
The fishermen of Newfoundland are said to
be petitioniny the Colonial Government that an
import duty be imposed on the fish caught by
the Americans, Canadians and Frenchmen.
Grottkau the Milwaukee anarchist editor.
has been sentenced to thirty days imprison-
lnent for contempt Of Court. lie had abused
the prosecuting officers and judges in his paper.
DIR. McGlynn will go to Rome early next
month to answer before the Pope the charge
Of INSTRUMENTATION, for which he has been sIs-
pended from st. Stephens church in New
York.
Some OF the Western cities and towns have
Of late been flooded with spurious silver dol
lars. The gang of countertciters has been cap
tured. \ Milwaukee doctor was one of the
fellows.
Forty->N Western and Southern insurance
companies and one from Rutland, VT, have
been lined for doing BUSINESS in Wisconsin
contrary to law. The total fines amount to
$50 800.
The Royal Thames Yacht Club has unani-
mousy decided to signalize the Queens jubilee
year by an ocean yacht race, open to all the
world, under conditions 10 be hereafter an
nounced.
The gallant warship Tennessee is to moulder
away iHgloriOu>ly in Rotten Row, and the first
compound engine of the American Navy is to
become scrap iron. She has just gone through
her final official inspection.
The heirs of Roger Merritt, a Revolutionary
hero. are endcav oring to make good their
claim to the land on which the village of Port
Chester, \. v, now stands. The property is
worth about fifteen millions.
The annual returns compiled by the Secretary
of the commonwealth on the polls, property,
| taxes. ETC.. of Massachusetts, shows that the
total valuation of the State is 81 SAT 53l ,422,
gain of $50, Isl, 2l9 since last year.
\ st. John newspaper, edited by member
| of the New Brunswick Government, declares
that the New Brunswick people are fully in
sympathy with the Nova Scotians in their de-
sire TO secede from the Dominion.
| One of the survivors of the wreck of the
| whaling bark Atlantic at the entrance to San
| Francisco harbor, tells Il terrible story of
drunkenness and fighting Oh board up to the
time she struck and went to pieces.
The dredging out of beds of mud near the
Brooklyn Navy Yard has caused some illness
among the officers of ships lying near. The
death of the wife Of Capt. Cook ofthe Vermont
is attributed to the stirring up of this filth.
National Aid for Common Schools.